I'd rather see it serving up webpages than collecting dust in my garage
Qualin while I do appreciate your advice, but I have absolutely no desire to provide my own server to a web host and then be responsible for it, especially one that been sitting in a garage, aw.org deserves better than that. I spend enough time working on this site that would only add to my workload and stress. I'm well aware of the options of web hosting, but I prefer a premium service that gives me some piece of mind. Our current provider is not cheap but they have provided us with outstanding service and this web site run FAST compared to so many others I see. With the only exception of some down time last month when another site on the server we are sharing was hit with multiple DOS attacks, the uptime is near 100%. This is not up for discussion anymore.
As for the download fee you are not even close to taking everything into account that went into all this. I do realize that this is my fault, my initial post was wordy enough and I decided to lump all the costs of doing this into "storage and bandwith costs" as to not get too off the track. In doing a price calculation you also have to take into consideration the other real costs involved with a massive undertaking such as this, like...
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<li>Meeting with an IP Attorney to review and edit all disclaimers, review the legality of my idea. Very expensive. </li>
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<li>Then the Copyright Office searches they charge $165 an hour with a two hour mininum, that ads up fast with the amount of documents we are talking about. All that is on top of having to pay the copyright office registration fee of $138. The good news after all that is I now understand how to do most of the searching myself, although at times I still might need some assistance from the office.</li>
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<li>New TOL Epson Perfection V700 scanner $599 and now my laptop appears to be not doing well under all the pressure of being used 14 hours a day, which could mean another $1400 or so. </li>
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<li>Then there are the paypal fees with take out 2.9% + .30 out of every $1.39 you are talking about. </li>
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<li>Then there is the expense of what I've purchased on eBay to add to the library, these stuff is not cheap by any means. </li>
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<li>Then for the expenses that cannot be written off of the US government taxes over 40% of what's left. </li>
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Then on top of all that I sit here this morning after literally hundreds of hours programming and spending nearly five months of my entire evenings scanning, cleaning and preparing documents you suggest to me that
"For that amount of money, I'd rather just mail you a 1 Terabyte hard drive, you can copy everything to it and them mail it back to me, it would be cheaper." REALLY, DID HE REALLY JUST SAY THAT?
[this post was last edited: 3/22/2012-09:55]
